Question for the older gamers

[Chaosolous]

When you were playing video games in their infancy, PAC-man and all that jazz, did you ever imagine that gaming would get to the point it's at now, with photo-realism and graphical fidelity?

[Fuki]

https://old.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/7aw5vb/to_those_who_were_alive_when_it_first_launched/
This was most people's introduction to proper 3d on consoles it seems.

[Chesmu]

Yes

[Fuki]

I'm pretty sure there were already crazy displays being imagined while Pacman was still being developed but i'm not an older gamer so dont quote me on that. I think Atari had a hologram console and some vector graphics were already being made

[xBCxRangers]

In a word, no. When PS1 came out, i never thought anything would ever beat that. I never seen anything like that before.

I was playing that Medal of Honor game, and it was like i was Saving Private Ryan. The sound effects, the graphics. It was nothing like i ever seen. Well, needless to say, we are where we are.

I would say where things may be going wrong, is it seemed back then, it was every team trying out do eachother. Great game after great game.

Now it seems all the creativity is gone, in lieu of great graphics and sound. But no doubt, night and day as compared to the arcades and Atari.

[WarHeRo]

ye. but i didnt see the woke stuff being forced on is

[mai72]

I'm an older gamer.

I had an Atari and would play Atari football, PacMan, etc. And then it was Sega and Nintendo. To 8 bit. I didn't think much about future graphics at this point in my life. It wasn't until I got into PC gaming. Back in the late 1990's. Half Life, and Unreal Tournament. 2 games that wowed me in terms of gameplay and graphics. Also Madden. With players blowing smoke on cold days, etc. I thought Tribes 2 was AMAZING graphically. Today, I can look back at those older titles and they all look dated. Because they are dated...

[L1qu1dator]

I imagined it would take longer than it did.

[mai72]

Publicado originalmente por xBCxRangers:

In a word, no. When PS1 came out, i never thought anything would ever beat that. I never seen anything like that before.

I was playing that Medal of Honor game, and it was like i was Saving Private Ryan. The sound effects, the graphics. It was nothing like i ever seen. Well, needless to say, we are where we are.

I would say where things may be going wrong, is it seemed back then, it was every team trying out do eachother. Great game after great game.

Now it seems all the creativity is gone, in lieu of great graphics and sound. But no doubt, night and day as compared to the arcades and Atari.

Back then, game development houses were able to take chances. Game development was still cheap. You only needed a handful of people to make a game like Doom, Quake or even Unreal Tournament. Today, you need dozens of people and they are all paid very well. And so, when a game bombs its a big deal. Its one of the reasons why we don't see development teams willing to take the risk on a game like they did in the past.

[Fuki]

Publicado originalmente por WarHeRo:

ye. but i didnt see the woke stuff being forced on is

I don't think anyone except ideologues saw or wanted that to happen.

[vkobe]

Publicado originalmente por Chaosolous:

When you were playing video games in their infancy, PAC-man and all that jazz, did you ever imagine that gaming would get to the point it's at now, with photo-realism and graphical fidelity?

when i was kid i thought future video game going to be vr and hologam

today vr is ok with quest

hologram wait 50 years ???

also i was stuck with nintendo, so mostly video game for me when i was kid was super mario, fighting game and crappy shoter like super contra, battletoad, castlevania

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

Publicado originalmente por L1qu1dator:

I imagined it would take longer than it did.

[Fuki]

Publicado originalmente por vkobe:

Publicado originalmente por Chaosolous:

When you were playing video games in their infancy, PAC-man and all that jazz, did you ever imagine that gaming would get to the point it's at now, with photo-realism and graphical fidelity?

when i was kid i thought future video game going to be vr and hologam

today vr is ok with quest

hologram wait 50 years ???

also i was stuck with nintendo, so mostly video game for me when i was kid was super mario, fighting game and crappy shoter like super contra, battletoad, castlevania

VR is definitely taking over now. There was the Atari Cosmos in like the 80s and Virtual Boy in the 90s, which flopped, but I kinda want one now.

[Devsman]

I honestly kinda figured by 2024, we'd have much more realistic graphics than we do.

At that point I hadn't yet figured out that we always overestimate the future. The future part of Back to the Future 2 takes place nine years ago, and 2001: A Space Odyssey takes place 23 years ago.

[JD]

Publicado originalmente por Devsman:

I honestly kinda figured by 2024, we'd have much more realistic graphics than we do.

So did I. I am not impressed with 4K and 8K resolutions on a 4090. VR is ok, but needs a lot more work.

I probably won't be impressed until 16K and 32K games hit the market.

[ℭycaleo]

Publicado originalmente por Chaosolous:

When you were playing video games in their infancy, PAC-man and all that jazz, did you ever imagine that gaming would get to the point it's at now, with photo-realism and graphical fidelity?

Actually no. I was always like that:
But dreaming of gaming future, funny but no. I dream a lot